White Cinquefoil (grass) - Useful Properties And Application Of Cinquefoil. Goose Cinquefoil, Erect, Silvery, Galangal, Red, Yellow, Nepalese

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Useful properties and application of the root and tincture of white cinquefoil

Botanical characteristics of Potentilla

White cinquefoil is a very rare plant that is found only in the wild. In Russia, its growing area is extremely limited. The plant does not exceed 30 cm in height. Each leaf of the white cinquefoil is kept on a rather long stalk. This herb grows in open places where there is a lot of sun. It blooms with delicate white flowers, creating a magnificent bedspread. The creeping root can reach 1 m in length. This plant is uniquely rich in various microelements. White cinquefoil is able to normalize metabolism in the human body, as well as to align hormonal balance.

Creeping shoots reach 80 cm in length. The unpaired leaves of this herb have a green tint on top, and on the bottom they are white due to silky pubescence. Potentilla has beautiful flowers that can be white, yellow and red, depending on the variety, located singly on a long thin pedicel that emerges from the axils of the leaves located at the top of the stem. Single yellow flowers are placed on long pedicels and have 5 petals. The fruit of the white cinquefoil is presented in the form of nuts. This herb blooms all summer, from May to August.

The fruit of Potentilla is a few nuts of dark olive color, most often they are smooth, but there are also wrinkles. Potentilla bloom begins in late spring - early summer. But it will take 3 weeks for the fruits to ripen after flowering begins. Cinquefoil is often found in the Urals, Western Siberia and the Caucasus. For this plant, fresh and moist soils, sandy loam lands in forests are best suited. This grass grows in clearings, forest edges, pastures, on the banks of swamps, streams and in clearings.

Cinquefoil is a rather whimsical plant. The main condition for caring for Potentilla is regular watering of the soil. In the spring, Potentilla needs mineral fertilization. In summer, the soil on which the cinquefoil grows must be loosened and weeded. Cinquefoil is a plant that easily tolerates cold, so in winter it does not need shelter.

Useful properties of Potentilla

White cinquefoil is an excellent diuretic and does not irritate the kidneys. In addition, it is often used as a pain reliever. This plant is a source of tannins, the most important of which is catechin, which improves digestion, therefore it is called the "friend of the stomach". Cinquefoil is used as an astringent, anti-inflammatory and bactericidal agent. The anti-inflammatory effect of this plant is due to those tannins, which, by creating a biological film, protect tissues from any influences (chemical, mechanical or bacterial), due to which inflammation occurs.

Cinquefoil has the ability to reduce capillary permeability and constrict blood vessels. It is used for coughs and colds, as it has an expectorant. In addition, this plant is used for the preparation of drugs that have a diuretic effect.

Application of Potentilla

In modern pharmacology and folk medicine, goose cinquefoil is used in the treatment of diseases such as gastritis, pancreatitis, ulcers and urolithiasis. Along with this, she perfectly copes with colic and diarrhea. Potentilla decoction is excellent for cramps and asthma attacks, and also significantly relieves pain in women during menstruation. It should be noted that goose cinquefoil is also used as an external agent.

For medicinal purposes, the rhizome, leaves and aerial part of the plant are used. Potentilla decoction is used for cirrhosis, chronic hepatitis. Tincture with the addition of olive oil is used for cracked skin.

A decoction from the rhizomes of the plant helps to cope with diarrhea, and it is also used for stomatitis, gingivitis and sore throat. Tincture and decoction help with dysentery and internal bleeding.

Cinquefoil is used not only internally, but externally it is also used. For example, externally cinquefoil is used as a remedy for the treatment of tonsillitis, ulcers, burns, stomatitis and periodontal disease. Infusion of Potentilla helps in the treatment of kidney and lung diseases. An ointment is also prepared from Potentilla, which is used for felon, wounds and cracks on the lips. A powder is also made from Potentilla, which is used as a powder for burns, weeping wounds, with external bleeding. Cinquefoil helps to get rid of bad breath.

Cinquefoil is part of many preparations that are used in the treatment of the bladder, kidneys, gout and mycosis.

Decoction of Potentilla rhizomes. To prepare it, take 1 tablespoon of plant rhizomes, pour a glass of boiling water and put on low heat for 15 minutes. After the broth has cooled, strain it. Take a ready-made broth 3, you can 4 times a day, 1 tablespoon. The broth should be consumed an hour and a half before meals. You can make lotions from this broth for hemorrhoids.

With a decoction of the herb, you can wash various wounds on the skin, rinse the mouth and throat for ulcerative stomatitis and tonsillitis, and you can also lubricate chapped lips for quick healing.

Potentilla tea for mouthwash. You need to take 2 teaspoons of cinquefoil rhizomes and pour them 300 ml of boiling water, then leave for 10 minutes on fire. Apply the medicine several times a day as a rinse or irrigate the mouth.

Potentilla root

Potentilla goose roots are mainly used for angina. For this, the rhizomes are poured with boiling water and infused until completely cooled. Then 2 tablespoons of the broth are taken before meals.

Infusion of Potentilla

You can insist on this herb in boiling water and milk. To do this, you need 1 tablespoon of chopped Potentilla pour 1 cup boiling water or 1 cup hot goat's milk and boil for 5-7 minutes, then let it brew for a couple of hours, and then strain. You should take this tincture at least three times a day before meals, 1/3 cup. Such a diuretic will ease the course of nephritis and urolithiasis, it also helps with bronchitis and relieves weakness in the legs.

Potentilla seeds

For various gynecological diseases, goose cinquefoil seeds are no less effective than pharmacological preparations. To prepare the broth, pour 1 teaspoon of seeds with 1 glass of water, after which it is imperative to bring to a boil and boil for 5 minutes, and then cool and strain. Prescribe such a decoction 2 times a day for half a glass.

Potentilla flowers

In folk medicine, for cramps, spasms of the calves of the legs, as well as for female ailments, medicinal tea from the flowers of this herb is used.

Types of Potentilla

Erect cinquefoil is a special perennial plant with a tuberous rhizome. In height, it can reach 20 cm. Erect stems have many leaves, which are slightly hairy on both sides. The diameter of the flowers is no more than 1 cm. The erect cinquefoil blooms for two months - in June and July. It is widespread in Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus.

As a rule, the plant settles in light forests, swamps and pastures. In folk medicine, not only rhizomes are used, but also stems, flowers and leaves. Erect cinquefoil is an excellent hemostatic and anti-inflammatory agent.

Perennial silver cinquefoil is a herb that is common in the Caucasus, Siberia and some CIS countries. The average height of the stems is within half a meter. The long root of silver cinquefoil is fusiform. The plant has a strong erect stem with five-part leaves. The fruit is presented in the form of wrinkled nuts.

Light yellow flowers are collected in a loose panicle. This grass blooms all summer until the end of September. Preparations containing silver cinquefoil have hemostatic, astringent, anthelmintic and anti-inflammatory effects.

Erect cinquefoil (galangal) is one of the varieties of this perennial herb with erect stems. Basal leaves are divided into several segments. The fruit is a smooth multi-root of a dark olive shade. Potentilla-galangal blooms from May to August, and the fruits ripen 20 days after the end of flowering. This type of grass is widespread in the Urals and the Caucasus, and is also found in Western Siberia. Kalgan is incredibly effective in treating dysentery.

Cinquefoil yellow is a perennial herb with finger-split leaves and attractive yellow flowers. Such a plant is light-loving and winter-hardy. It prefers to grow in slight partial shade. The compound fruit consists of achenes. The time of flowering Potentilla yellow - from late April to mid-May.

Red cinquefoil is an unusual hybrid cultivar of a rhizome herb. This herb has trigeminal pepper leaves and delicate dark purple corollas. This spectacular double-flowered plant blooms all summer through early September. It is a whimsical plant and chooses fertile soils. Red cinquefoil can be found in central Russia. The roots of this herb are used in folk medicine as an anti-inflammatory agent.

Nepalese cinquefoil is a beautiful perennial plant, often growing up to 50-60 cm in height. This grass has a huge amount of flower stalks and pleases with flowering all summer months. For growth, Nepalese Potentilla chooses sunny areas, but it can grow well in partial shade. The plant tolerates short winter frosts quite calmly. A decoction of this herb has a hemostatic and a slight antimicrobial effect.

Volga cinquefoil is considered an almost extinct species. This plant could be found in the Saratov region of Russia on the chalk slopes. Currently, this species is practically not found in the wild.

Contraindications to the use of Potentilla

Cinquefoil is strictly contraindicated in hypotensive patients due to its side effect of lowering blood pressure.

The author of the article: Sokolova Nina Vladimirovna | Phytotherapist

Education: Diploma in "General Medicine" and "Therapy" received at the Pirogov University (2005 and 2006). Advanced training at the Department of Phytotherapy at the Peoples' Friendship University of Moscow (2008).